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Name: Clara's Heart
Released: 1988-10-7
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Neil Patrick Harris, Michael Ontkean, Kathleen Quinlan, Spalding Gray

Clara's Heart

PG-13
1h 48m
1988

47%

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Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg stars as a Jamaican woman who teaches a boy from the Maryland suburbs about life while the boy's self-absorbed parents try to cope with their grief over the death of another child in this heartwarming and bittersweet coming-of-age tale. Based on the novel by Joseph Olshan.

Director:

Robert Mulligan

Producer:

Martin Elfland, Marianne Moloney

Writer:

Mark Medoff

Cast:

Whoopi Goldberg, Neil Patrick Harris, Michael Ontkean, Kathleen Quinlan, Spalding Gray, Beverly Todd, Hattie Winston

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

47%

Reviews

The Crisis

Herb Boyd

Boredom is the thing you'll have to endure if you follow Clara's Heart to its almost teary conclusion.

The darker and far-flung aspects of the story are icky and unnecessary. But the relationship between Clara and David is beautifully delineated.

Clara's Heart is just awful.

Goldberg is on top form, doing her Jamaican accent shtick.

The surprises may not come quite often enough for some, but at all times there is Goldberg's glowing performance to keep us fascinated, or a nice salty bit of humor, or a great little character riff by Harris that's completely endearing.

July 16, 2020

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